Democrats have decried the charges as political retaliation and predicted that Rep. LaMonica McIver will be cleared in court.

Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka (D) on Tuesday called his arrest last month “egregious” and “authoritarian,” as he made the case that interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sued New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor on Tuesday over his arrest on a trespassing charge at a federal immigration detention facility, saying the Trump-appointed attorney had ...

Habba was not serving in a prosecutorial function when she acted with DHS agents in the scheme to arrest Mayor Baraka,” his ...

we have agreed to dismiss Mayor Baraka’s misdemeanor charge of trespass for the sake of moving forward," acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba said in a statement on ...

New Jersey acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba has ordered an investigation ... the president’s crackdown on immigration. Habba was appointed interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey late last month by Trump ...

“Let me be clear: executive orders will be followed and enforced in the state of New Jersey,” Alina Habba, the acting U.S. attorney for ... which is issued by a federal agency like ICE, and a judicial ...